Description: Marxism and Epistemology by Dominique Lecourt Bachelard, Canguilhem, Foucault. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description When this book was first published in English in 1975, the previous forty years had seen the emergence of a new tradition in the philosophy of the sciences, or epistemology in France. The founder of this tradition was Gaston Bachelard. Rather than elaborating from existing philosophy a series of categories to judge sciences claims to truth, Bachelard started from the twentieth-century revolution in physics and critically examined existing philosophy on the basis of the achievements of this revolution and the scientific practice it exemplified. This critique of philosophy produced an epistemology radically different from traditional idealism and empiricism. Simultaneously, it opened the way to a new history of the sciences which had been developed by Georges Canguilhem and Michel Foucault.This critique of empiricism and idealism in the name of science clearly parallels the theses of dialectical materialism. Hence a dialectical-materialist analysis illuminates both the achievements and limitations of the tradition. In this book Dominique Lecourt presents an exposition of Bachelards epistemological writings and then offers a critique of that epistemology and of the works of Canguilhem and Foucault from a Marxist-Leninist viewpoint. In an introduction written especially for the English edition he compares Bachelards positions with those of the different, but in some respects analogous, Anglo-Saxon traditions in epistemology descending from the works of Karl Popper, in particular with Thomas Kuhns Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Author Biography Dominique Lecourt was a pupil of Louis Althusser and Jacques Derrida at the École Normale Supérieure in the 1960s. Now Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VII, his publications in English include Marxism and Epistemology and Proletarian Science? Details ISBN1786632403 Author Dominique Lecourt ISBN-10 1786632403 ISBN-13 9781786632401 Format Paperback Pages 230 Imprint Verso Books Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 1975-01-01 NZ Release Date 1975-01-01 Publisher Verso Books Year 1975 Publication Date 1975-01-01 UK Release Date 1975-01-01 Subtitle Bachelard, Canguilhem, Foucault Replaces 9780902308459 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:139649934;
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